I worked from home for 2 years by myself and then my girl got a job where she's mostly working from home too

I was actually worried because I was so used to being alone but nope. It's just fine at worst and cool to talk during the day usually

We don't get to talk too much or hang out too much but it never feels bad and I'm enjoying it

I'm genuinely so happy for you. It is awesome that you found someone who matches your vibe. Stay awesome bro :)

True, but I'd venture it's even simpler than that - it's easier socially to be critical of stuff than to be positive.

People complain about everything: their spouse, their children, their house, the small scratch on their fancy car, how many shows are on their streaming backlog, how complicated the travel was on their vacation, etc. These are all things that probably bring them lots of joy, but it's so much easier to complain, so to someone (like OP in the image) hearing it, it sounds like the negatives outweigh the positives.

My sister's boyfriend got caught with a Tinder account and she was going to break up with him, but then she realized she was pregnant. They're now married with two kids. They seem happy, I guess we will see in a few more years.

True but nobody tries to claim that living in sin is a bad time. So many of my coworkers try to "bond" over complaining about their wives and I'm just sitting there smiling/nodding like a schmuck who loves his wife.

Or if you have multiple partners, you can do both!

The dream. Is it Baldur's Gate?

Yeah I've noticed the exact same thing.

I think our society has become so used to sexualization on all fronts that a lot of people think that it's what is expected of them, or that it's what people want so it's what they should want ect ect.

There aren't nearly as many songs or tv shows about happy boring marriages, it's all about getting laid and partying or following a bunch of love interests but not committing to any of them or just being a "love wolf" and I don't think that's intentional from artists, it's just those things are more exciting to hear about/see than something that is relatively uneventful and normal.

In reality a lot of people I know are happier in a healthy relationship, a poly friend of mine settled down once she met a dude who treated her well and wanted the same thing. I saw her recently when she was back in town and I could tell so quickly she was so much happier.

Myself being an attractive guy who's also very nerdy and weird found that it was really easy to sleep with girls but hard to get into a relationship. Sleeping around just made me feel worse cause I felt like my personality was the issue, now that I've found someone I really connect with I'm way happier than I was dating.

Uh, I don't really see what this post has to do with mono vs poly. This just kinda comes off as you putting down poly relationships with no prompting.

It's a different relationship structure. Works for some, not others. You don't need to do it like that if you don't want to. But for some of us it feels a lot more natural.

And you do need to be careful with anecdotes, yeah. Because it could all be from just randomly this being specifically the case with your friends, to some other reasons correlated with, but not caused by, poly itself (like people doing poly for the wrong reason) etc. Personally I do not see a relationship between mono and poly to struggles, I see a relationship between personal struggles and relationship struggles. And there's no shortage of mono relationships imploding either.

Few years shy of 20 here, and life is also amazing.